Imua Playbook

A dream can be something big and exciting. It can be an experience a child has imagined for years, a special adventure, or an opportunity to do something they never thought possible. But sometimes a dream is much more immediate. Sometimes it is a wheelchair that gives a child greater independence. A communication device that […]

What happens when you bring together young people from across Maui County, turn up the music, and give them a chance to raise their voices together? We’re about to find out. Imua Family Services is launching 100 Voices, Maui’s first community-based youth choir, and we’re looking for young people ages 11 to 18 who are […]

If you have a child between birth and age 3, you already know something remarkable happens almost every week. One day you’re celebrating tummy time. Then crawling. Then first steps. Then first words. Before long, you have a tiny person racing through the house with very big ideas about what they want, what they don’t […]

For Peyton Thomas, coming home to Maui was more than a change of scenery. It was a chance to bring years of experience helping people navigate complicated systems back to the community where she grew up. Today, Peyton is a Care Coordinator with Imua Family Services’ Early Intervention program, helping families navigate the Early Intervention […]

What can a toddler do in an hour? Make a new friend. Get a little dirty. Discover something hiding under a leaf. Practice sharing. Try something new. Laugh. Explore. Move. Create. And, somewhere in the middle of all that play, learn a whole lot about the world around them. That is a pretty good hour. […]

There is something magical about learning with your hands in the dirt. Soon, children at Imua Inclusion Preschool will have a brand-new place to dig, plant, explore, taste, ask questions and discover the world around them with the creation of Charlie’s Garden at the Will Smith Imua Discovery Garden. Made possible through an extraordinary $190,000 […]

What if one of the most memorable things you did on Maui wasn’t something you simply saw, but something you helped care for? That idea is at the heart of a new project taking shape at Imua Discovery Garden. Imua Family Services has been selected as one of six Maui nonprofits participating in the Hawaii […]

Give Donna Tamashiro a patch of dirt, a few plants, and a pair of gardening gloves, and chances are she will find a way to make something better. That might mean clearing an overgrown corner of the Imua Discovery Garden, growing Okinawan purple sweet potatoes, preparing a greenhouse for butterflies, or even hand-painting rocks just […]

Some people show up when you ask for help. Imua’s volunteers have a habit of showing up before you even finish asking. They are the familiar faces checking people in at events, lending a hand behind the scenes, tackling projects around the Will Smith Imua Discovery Garden, helping keep things looking beautiful, pitching in at […]

This September, during National Suicide Prevention Month, communities across the country are being reminded of something simple but incredibly important: connection matters. Reaching out matters. Listening matters. And sometimes, having someone on the other end of the conversation who truly understands what you are going through can make all the difference. That idea is at […]